Chapter 113 Key Flying Magic Carpet
Lin Zhuyue, Shi Can and Gong Yongyuan were dragged into the well and fell rapidly, but the Ukiyo-e scroll reacted quickly, extending its body and supporting the three of them.
As for Meng Qi...
The owner of the ghost hand that pulled him into the well, a translucent old woman, used her arms to hold Meng Qi in a princess-like position and brought him down to the yellow land.
The old woman was wearing a cheongsam and her hair was neatly combed. Although her face was full of wrinkles, it was not difficult to tell from the contours of her facial features that she was a beauty when she was young.
But no matter how beautiful she was, Meng Qi found it hard to accept that he was being carried by a ghost princess:
"Let me go! Don't touch me!"
The old man withdrew his hand.
Meng Qi fell directly to the ground.
"ah……"
Meng Qi cried out in pain, rolled over, and got up from the ground, jogging towards his companions who had landed safely. Halfway through his run, he realized what was happening, stopped, and pointed at Lin Zhuyue with wide eyes, saying,
"Scroll? You, you..."
Meng Qi almost bit his tongue.
He glanced back at the golden key floating in the giant tree, then at Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can. As their eyes met, he vaguely understood something.
Meng Qi asked, "Are you two playing Spirit Master Mansion?"
"Just play it."
Shi Can crossed his arms and said nonchalantly,
"The Spiritual Master's Mansion is suffering from a lot of problems right now. If it breaks, we can just replace it with new parts. It'll be clean and usable."
Meng Qi: “…”
Gong Yongyuan: "...Are you speaking human language?"
"I'll explain this later."
Lin Zhuyue took a step forward, straightened her back, and looked at the dead soul facing them with their backs to the giant tree, and asked,
"Ms. Shang Gengfan?"
When the old man looked at Lin Zhuyue, there was a kind and gentle smile on his old face. She nodded and acknowledged her identity.
She stretched out her hand and waved towards Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue hesitated for a moment and took a step forward.
Shi Can summoned his Spiritual Weapon, Absolute Blade, and followed Lin Zhuyue in silence, only two steps behind. If Shang Gengfan made any unpleasant moves, he could swing his Absolute Blade and cut the ghost in half.
When Lin Zhuyue approached Shang Gengfan, the latter turned around and faced the key floating in the trunk of the giant tree.
Can this key open the seal of the underworld?
Shang Gengfan said in an old voice:
"Child of the Ling family, this is what you need to fulfill your destiny."
Lin Zhuyue walked to the trunk of the giant tree and stretched out his hand.
Her eyes could see the key through the tree, but her hand could not reach into the tree as it was blocked.
But she caught something else.
The colorful, glowing threads lay in her palm.
"Is this... 'Fate'?"
After Lin Zhuyue looked at the palm of his hand, he raised his head and looked at the key in the tree again, and said in surprise,
"'Fate' converges here..."
"The name of this tree is 'One'."
Shang Gengfan stood behind Lin Zhuyue and calmly and slowly introduced the origin of the giant tree to the girl.
"It existed long ago, planted by the Great Dao in this world. It is older than Jianmu, Fusang, and Ruomu. The Great Dao gave it a mission to protect the hope of all life. Even if Heaven forbids human life, it will leave a glimmer of hope for all things in the world."
After hearing this, Shi Can understood the origin of the giant tree's name and asked:
"There are fifty great ways, forty-nine of which are derived from nature, and only one is hidden by man?"
Shang Gengfan nodded slightly and said:
"Perhaps it is precisely because it carries the 'life' of all things that all the 'karma' in the world is connected to it."
"Of course, there's another theory. 'Fate' is the embodiment of its protection of all things in the world. Only creatures entrusted with a mission by the giant tree can freely see 'Fate'."
Lin Zhuyue understood the origin of the giant tree.
But she still had doubts in her heart and said:
"Ms. Shang, can you tell me about your story?"
Shang Gengfan did not refuse Lin Zhuyue's request.
A stone table and five stone benches appeared next to the giant tree. Shang Gengfan asked the trainee spiritualists to sit down together and began to answer the doubts in their minds.
"As for me... my maternal grandfather's name was Geng Xu. He and many of his ancestors had close ties to the Ling family. But the struggle between profit and righteousness was deadly. All his brothers and sisters died, and then his sons began to die. After three sons died, my mother was the only daughter left. He couldn't bear the pain, so he gave up his identity as a spiritual master and left Tiancheng with my mother."
Shang Gengfan said to the trainee spiritual masters,
"But after leaving, he didn't feel relieved, but guilty. Guilt was like a seed that took root and grew in his heart, haunting him for many, many years."
"My mother passed away before him, and he raised me. He opened my eyes, taught me magic, and recounted his inner demons to me over and over again. When I grew up, he was old and suffering from Alzheimer's. He went crazy, cried bitterly, and even knelt down, dragging me through the streets, saying that he wanted to return to Tiancheng, to the Ling family. Therefore, his inner demons also became my nightmares."
"After that, I lived a peaceful life for many years. But I often dreamed of my elderly and unconscious grandfather. His image did not become blurred with the passage of time, but became clearer in my mind."
Shang Gengfan sighed helplessly when he said this.
"Later, I grew old, lying in bed, unable to move. I was no longer in my right mind, paranoid, and prone to nightmares. My son came to tell me that the Ling family kid was gone. I kept seeing my grandfather grabbing my legs and crying until his eyes bled."
"I wanted to wipe his tears, but they wouldn't go away. I wondered what I could do to stop him from crying. Should I return to the Ling family and pursue justice instead of dwelling on mediocre happiness? However, time is gone forever, and even if I wanted to change my mind, it's useless..."
"I died carrying the pain and regret my grandfather passed on to me. After death, regrets are magnified many times over, becoming obsessions. So, after death, I, with regrets in my heart, was led here because of my obsession."
Shang Gengfan looked back at the giant tree and said,
"It told me that I still had a chance to help the Ling family. I felt that I couldn't miss this opportunity. Under its guidance, I fell asleep. While asleep, my spiritual power was exhausted, so I had to wake up and steal power from the living to maintain my existence."
"Then, you came to the resort for this purpose, and I guided you here. I think the reason I woke up was not because my spiritual power was exhausted, but because the time had come and it awakened me."
The Ukiyoe scroll twisted and flew for a moment before it flew into Lin Zhuyue's arms. It rubbed against her twice, then wrapped around her arm and pulled her toward the giant tree.
Shang Gengfan said to Lin Zhuyue, "It's waiting for you."
“Everything exists for a reason.”
Shang Gengfan looked at the key in the giant tree.
"Perhaps before the creation of heaven and earth, it had already foreseen that in the distant future, the world would suffer this catastrophe, and that someone would come to avert it."
"Take the key with you. You know it exists, and you should know how to take it, right?"
Lin Zhuyue nodded.
She stood up and stretched out her hand toward the giant tree.
The scroll released her arm and, driven by her, flew towards the giant tree. The tree trunk that had just blocked Lin Zhuyue's hand was now as nothing as a shadow. The scroll smoothly entered the trunk, lingering and enveloping the key.
This key can open all the locks in the world, but no one can take it away from where it is. However, a spiritual weapon called Ukiyo-e scroll can copy and record it, which is condensed by spiritual power.
After a moment, Ukiyo-e scroll let go of the key, left the tree, and returned to Lin Zhuyue.
The fake appeared in Lin Zhuyue's palm.
Lin Zhuyue asked in confusion: "Why is it gray?"
The key in the tree is golden and glows.
But the sword in Lin Zhuyue's hand was lifeless and dull, like a cold and hard stone.
"It requires spiritual power, and a huge amount of it."
Shang Gengfan gave Lin Zhuyue a hint,
"You need to inject spiritual energy into it and accumulate it repeatedly to make it strong enough to fight against the sealing formation covering the underworld."
Lin Zhuyue poured his spiritual power into it as instructed.
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to feel that the key had become slightly brighter.
"My mission is complete... Those three souls are in the well. Once you get out, just take them away."
Shang Gengfan stood up, she looked back at the giant tree, then fixed her gaze on Shi Can and said,
"Please do me a favor, I need to be free..."
A golden "edge" emerged between her and the giant tree.
Shi Can sighed, stood up, and summoned the Absolute Blade again. He held the blue-purple demon sword and slashed at the golden "edge" with the sharp blade.
This golden "edge" is very thick.
This was the thickest "edge" Shi Can had ever seen in his life.
The thicker the bond, the harder it is to cut.
This "fate" should be extremely tenacious.
However, Shi Chan cut it off easily.
Perhaps it's because it's time to break...
The broken bond dissipated, and Shang Gengfan's spirit also turned into smoke, dissipating into the vast expanse of heaven and earth. No longer bound by pain, guilt, regret, or obsession, she would roam freely across the mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas.
"It's time for us to go." Shi Can put away his sword and looked up at the sky.
A full moon hangs in the crimson sky.
The full moon is not actually the moon, but the entrance and exit of this world.
Apprentice spiritualists enter the tree world from here.
This wasn't the underworld, but rather a gap between the underworld and the yang world. Naturally, the door here wasn't like the underworld, where you could enter but not exit, or exit but not enter. Therefore, trainee spiritualists should be able to return to the yang world from here.
Gong Yongyuan asked: "...How do we get up there?"
The four people all looked at the Ukiyo-e scroll floating beside Lin Zhuyue.
The Ukiyo-e scroll that had originally unfolded into a long strip immediately rolled itself up, trying to escape back into Lin Zhuyue's body.
Shi Can grabbed it and said:
"You brought us down here, so don't you have an obligation to bring us back? Magic carpet?"
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